Eric Schmieman worked for 15 years on the modern engineering equivalent of the Great Pyramid — building a giant protective shield for a damaged reactor at Chernobyl that would protect the world from further fallout from the worst ever nuclear disaster. The steel shell, slid into place over Reactor No. 4 on railroad tracks in…
A North Dakota jury on Wednesday awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to the Texas-based pipeline company Energy Transfer, which had sued Greenpeace over its role in protests nearly a decade ago against its Dakota Access Pipeline. The verdict was a major blow to the storied environmental organization. Greenpeace had maintained that it…
Greenpeace is among the most well-known environmental organizations in the world, the result of more than 50 years of headline-grabbing protest tactics. Its activists have confronted whaling ships on the high seas. They’ve hung banners from the Eiffel Tower. They’ve occupied oil rigs. A (fictional) activist even sailed with Greenpeace in an episode of “Seinfeld,”…
The opening week of the landmark trial of Greenpeace in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit by Energy Transfer over the Dakota Access Pipeline protests did not bode well for the defense. Lawyers for Greenpeace said so themselves in a petition filed in North Dakota’s Supreme Court. They asked the court on Thursday to move the trial out…
Lawyers for the pipeline company Energy Transfer and Greenpeace fired their opening salvos in a North Dakota courtroom Wednesday morning in a civil trial that could bankrupt the storied environmental group. The suit revolves around the role Greenpeace played in massive protests against construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline nearly a decade ago. The pipeline,…
Hong Kong labour unions and a green group have joined hands to urge McDonald’s to respond to public appeals after the fast food chain sacked an artist known for taking on blue-collar jobs to champion workers’ rights. The Alliance for Our McDonald’s, formed by 53-year-old artist activist Luke Ching Chin-wai and four other groups, announced…
Hong Kong labour unions and a green group have joined hands to urge McDonald’s to respond to public appeals after the fast food chain sacked an artist known for taking on blue-collar jobs to champion workers’ rights. The Alliance for Our McDonald’s, formed by 53-year-old artist activist Luke Ching Chin-wai and four other groups, announced…
Most Hongkongers support prioritising the development of local renewable energy, a survey by a leading environmental group and a city university has found, with more than half of respondents expressing reservations about importing electricity from mainland China. Results of the survey, jointly conducted by Greenpeace Hong Kong and Baptist University, were released after the UN’s…